ONLY A KISS is set in Wales and tells the story of Imogen, the one woman in the Survivor"s Club. As was common practice at the time, she went to war with her husband, never imagining she would be kidnapped along with him on the Peninsula by the enemy. What she and her husband suffered there was more than she could bear, and when she returned to Hardford Hall alone, she was broken. She has lived ever since on her late husband"s lonely estate, isolating herself enough to go on. Until the estate"s heir, Percival Hayes, the new Earl of Hardford, Viscount Barclay, finally takes enough interest in his property to visit it. Percy is a big man, and brings with him the bustle and energy of life and the living. He sees the state of neglect and disrepair the estate has fallen into, and resolves to set things right. Soon he discovers that fallow fields and straggling livestock are the least of his problems, as his holdings are in the grip of a vicious local smuggling gang. But it doesn"t take...